Hi. It worked that way in SL with Safari 5.0. As soon as 5.1 came out, that ability broke.
On 2012-07-02, at 7:11 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I doubt you will see the reading by line with the down arrow. That would > radically change the way VO navigates the web, and I'm not sure it would be > for the better. It would be selecting text easier though. > > Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On Jul 2, 2012, at 6:37 PM, Chris Moore <apple.geek.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hmmm I remember a while back putting a list of 15 improvements. I can't >> remember them all now, so perhaps I have just learnt to live without them. >> I did report them to Apple though as bugs and feature enhancements. >> >> The VoiceOver busy is the biggest annoyance which is caused by the pathetic >> slow buffering system voice over uses. So I would like to see that >> rewritten from the ground up. There are a few random performance bugs that >> happen now and then which require me to switch voice over off then back on >> again. So overall performance could do with being improved. >> >> I would also like to know what web page I am looking at when switching >> between tabs, being told that is an HTML page is not exactly helpful. I >> would also like to navigate line by line just by pressing the down arrow or >> up key. VO still needs a bit of work when reporting how many HMTL elements >> are on a web page, some windows screen readers seem to find more tables and >> headings than VO, especially in the buggy rotor. >> >> I would like the ability to edit form fields in a PDF with Preview, but I >> believe this is coming in the next Mountain Lion release (according to >> Apple's website). >> >> I would appreciate MIDI event editing in GarageBand, and a huge update to >> iWork. There just is not enough accessible productive software on the Mac. >> There is more to using a Mac than just Skype and Mail surely? >> >> Not sure if that bug still exists when using the real speak voices where the >> pitch used to shift up and down randomly. I stopped using those voices as >> it became too annoying. >> >> I would also like the ability to edit voice over's dictionary. For example >> if you type third as in the number 3 followed by the letters r and d, you >> get 3rd (three road), surely this should be a third? So I think the ability >> to edit some of VO's assumptions would be nice, or maybe VO should grow up >> and become a tad more intelligent. I would like more control over how VO >> reads out numbers too. >> >> Maybe developers should also be given the option to name what VO calls an >> HTML area, as something else? For example when using adium the chat window >> is called an HTML area, am sure a chat window or conversation window would >> be more meaningful. >> >> Last but not least, I find VO a bit slow when first entering the iTunes >> store. The page takes a while to render. Well actually visually it does >> not, but VO seems to think it does. Actually come to mention it when VO >> says something is busy, a sighted person can still move the mouse and >> perform the action they require, it is just VO's buffer which is busy. >> >> I spotted another bug today too. When ordering a smart case for my iPad, VO >> was unable to read out the colour options. When trying to select a colour, >> VO simply said "space radio button" for each of the 6 colours. The work >> around seemed to be select a colour, go back to the top of the screen and >> read out the description to see if the default green had changed. Or look >> in the basket and hope to god you have not selected pink. I eventually >> performed this task via the Apple Store app on my iPhone which performed >> perfectly. >> >> Chris >> On 2 Jul 2012, at 19:16, Daniel McGee wrote: >> >>> Hi all, a while ago on this list I saw someone mention that they would like >>> so and so bug to be fixed in Mountain Lion. >>> I would just really like to start a discussion on if there are not many >>> enhancements to Voiceover in the next OS, then what bugs would you like >>> fixed and hope Apple has done there job with it. >>> I'll go 1st. >>> For me its safari. two things for me. >>> 1. Now and then when I go back a page with CMD left bracket Voiceover >>> doesn't announce my list of headings or links that I have set in VO >>> utility. >>> 2. continuing this previous page thing, because I don't always know when >>> the page is fully loaded when going back, I get the lovely "Voiceover >>> Busy!" Not! >>> This is using Lion V7.4 and Safari 5.1.7 >>> >>> So what are yours? >>> >>> I hope this will become an interesting topic because I'm interested to see >>> what people can come up with and I'm sure there will be some good ones! >>> >>> So everyone, the dance floor is yours! 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